W21 - Discharge Planning Within a Recovery Perspective
DJ Dunlap, LCSW, CBHNP
Bonnie Clark, RN, CBHNP
Dupre
The US Department of Health and Human Services has reported that individuals with mental illness are hesitant to continue services in the community due to stigma. An expectation of the mental health discharge plan is to help move individuals to less costly services to continue to meet their mental health needs in the least restrictive setting. This session examines current mental health discharge practices in literature and relates the practices to recovery perspectives. The goal is to acquire skills necessary to determine whether your agency’s current discharge practices promote or detract from the recovery perspective’s stated outcomes. The presenter will identify and discuss possible additional discharge practices which may augment your current discharge planning process and further support the recovery perspective.
W22 - The State’s Role in Coverage of Mental Health and Substance
Abuse Services: Vision for the Future
Morgan Plant, Morgan Plant & Associates
Rosemarie Greco, Office of Health Care Reform
Sunburst
Morgan Plant, PCPA contract lobbyist with 38 years of experience on the hill, and Rosemarie Greco, director of the Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform, will give session attendees an overview of both the governor’s and the General Assembly’s activities surrounding the delivery of mental health and drug and alcohol services in the community. Ms. Plant will discuss current legislation and possibilities for legislative progress in the future and Ms. Greco, who led the effort to develop Prescription for Pennsylvania, a sweeping plan to make health insurance within the reach of all Pennsylvanians, will focus on the Access to Basic Care Health Plan and the status of the vision for mental health and drug and alcohol treatment benefit. There will be time for questions and discussion.
W23 - Surviving
the Due Diligence Process
Robert Bickford, CBHNP
Snowflake
This workshop's goal is to prepare financial and non-financial management personnel for due diligence by an outside investor or potential acquirer. It is critical to have the tools to put your best foot forward while continuing to perform effectively. Topics included in the presentation are agency preparation, timeliness, accuracy, urgency, and the generation of solid data. The presentation concludes with discussion on changing roles and relationships resulting from the due diligence process.
W24 - Strategies
and Transition Issues for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Karen Markle, MA, BCBA, NHS Human Services
Carl Clark, MA, NHS Human Services
Seasons 1
This workshop provides an overview of strategies for equipping students with the necessary tools to transition to a full-inclusion setting. Presenters will highlight the implementation of the LRE step-down plan, designed and utilized by the NHS autism schools. Other specific topics included are the identification of inclusion goals, behavioral supports required for transitioning, stakeholder buy-in, and the power of family collaboration.
W25/W32/W39
- Ethics in Substance Abuse Counseling
Victoria Lahey, MSEd, Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs
Seasons 3
This course – which covers three sessions – addresses ethics in the context of substance abuse counseling. Special focus is placed upon the principles underlying codes of ethics and how these codes address issues relating to the counseling relationship, confidentiality, counselor competence, supervision, and dual relationships. In addition, an ethical decision making model will be presented and discussed. Case studies will be used throughout the workshop to provide participants with experience in applying ethical and professional standards. Completion of all three sessions meets requirements of the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs mandated ethics training.
W26 - Facilitating
Evidence-Based Prescribing Practices: Real Time Pharmacy Data Feedback and Focused
Physician Case Discussion to Improve Quality of Care
Frank Ghinassi, PhD, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Tanya J. Fabian, PharmD, PhD, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Seasons 5
The advanced session presents a highly detailed description of the data, techniques, and processes used by a multi-disciplinary quality improvement team to help increase the use of evidence-based prescribing practices by physicians. The presentation describes which prescribing practices were targeted, why they were chosen, how they link to national issues and benchmarking efforts, and application to community-based prescribing practices. Educational forums were held at the outset of the project to guide creation of a real time pharmacy data system allowing prescribing physicians to better examine their own prescribing practices. Use of this real time data feedback and respectful, professional peer discussion helped to shift prescribing practices towards more evidence-based choices. The presentation will also display pre- and post-intervention data and outline the process used to facilitate community-based uptake and implementation.
W27 - An
Award Winning Risk Management Program Model
Victoria Livingstone, MS, CAS, Milestone
Dogwood
Milestone won the Negley Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Risk Management. Ms. Livingstone will present basic risk management principles, the benefits of risk management for the non-profit, and the nationally-recommended risk management program model used by Milestone. Efforts to reduce organizational risk for a behavioral health agency will be the emphasis. Highlighted are the areas of risk exposures for the behavioral health organization.